• nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
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    “Floppy disks” were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer

    Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies

    Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop

    • DivineDev@piefed.social
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      I used those big floppy disks with some ancient hardware for running physics experiments during university in like 2015-ish, and I’m sure that exact floppy is still in use today. It’s not even a small and underfunded university or anything.